Today

After 1984, there have been several mergers of mining companies themselves, as well as the Baby Bells multiple met, and some components are now in the hands of independent Bell System history. The current structure of the business today is.

Regional Bell Operating Companies:


>>>AT & T Inc., formerly Southwestern Bell Corporation and SBC Communications, Inc., a currently existing holding

>>>AT & T Corp., a subsidiary of current

>>>AT & T Teleholdings, Inc. (formerly Ameritech Corporation), a wholly-course also includes late SNET and Pacific Telesis

>>>Illinois Bell Telephone Company, a currently existing regional LEC

>>>Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Incorporated, currently existing regional LEC

>>>Michigan Bell Telephone Company, a currently existing regional LEC

>>>Pacific Bell Telephone Company, a currently existing regional LEC

>>>Nevada Bell Telephone Company, a currently existing regional LEC, omitted from the MFJ

>>>The Ohio Bell Telephone Company, a currently existing regional LEC

>>>The Southern New England Telephone Company, a currently existing regional LEC that AT & T owned
16.8% before 1984 and what was left in 1984 by dismemberment separate

>>>Wisconsin Bell, Inc., a currently existing regional LEC

>>>BellSouth Corporation, a subsidiary in progress. Its two operating companies merged into one:

>>>BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC, a currently existing regional LEC, includes Southern Bell & South Central >>>Bell

>>>Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, a currently existing regional LEC

>>>Verizon Communications, Inc., formerly Bell Atlantic Corporation, a holding company that currently exist

>>>NYNEX Corporation, a former RBOC holding

>>>Verizon New England, Inc., a currently existing regional LEC

>>>Verizon New York, Inc., a currently existing regional LEC

>>>Verizon Delaware LLC, a currently existing regional LEC

>>>Verizon Maryland, Inc., a currently existing regional LEC

>>>Verizon New Jersey, Inc., a currently existing regional LEC

>>>Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc., a currently existing regional LEC

>>>Verizon Washington, DC Inc., a currently existing regional LEC

>>>Verizon Virginia, Inc., a currently existing regional LEC

The following telephone companies are considered independent of Baby Bells:

>>>CenturyLink, Inc., an independent company that are currently held LEC

>>>Qwest Communications International Inc., a holding company acquired in 2011, originally a non-Bell, U.S.

WEST acquired and merged in 2000.

>>>Qwest Services Corporation, a holding company within the corporate structure Qwest

>>>Qwest Corporation, a currently existing regional LEC originally Bell Mountain, Malheur Bell has departed, Northwestern Bell, Bell Pacific Northwest

>>>Cincinnati Bell, Inc., an independent company that are currently held LEC

>>>Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company LLC, a LEC currently exist which AT & T owned 27.8% before 1984 and thus was left separate break in 1984

>>>Comcast Corporation, an existing course cable television holding

>>>Comcast MO Group, Inc., the original U.S. WEST, gave birth to a "new" U.S. WEST and MediaOne changed its name in 1998, acquired by AT & T in 1999, sold to Comcast in 2002

>>>FairPoint Communications, Inc., an independent company that are currently held LEC

>>>Northern New England Telephone Operations LLC, a regional LEC created when Verizon New England
lines in Maine and New Hampshire were sold to FairPoint in 2008

>>>Telephone Operating Company of Vermont LLC, a regional LEC created when Verizon New England lines in Vermont were sold to FairPoint in 2008

>>>Frontier Communications Corporation, a currently existing independent LEC held

>>>Frontier Communications ILEC Holdings, Inc., a holding company created by Verizon LEC border and sold in 2010

>>>Frontier West Virginia, Inc., a currently existing regional LEC, formerly C & P Telephone of West Virginia
The following companies have been transformed after 1984 AT & T Corp. or the Baby Bells and does not provide telephone service.

>>>Alcatel-Lucent currently existing equipment / research company

>>>Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc., a research company split apart in 1995 and merged with Alcatel in 2006

>>>Western Electric Company, Incorporated, a former telecommunications and recording equipment-manufacturing company which has ceased to have that name in 1984 to break

>>>Alcatel-Lucent Bell, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent today which was founded in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1882 by Western Electric. He joined Alcatel-Lucent in the property via ITT and Alcatel.

>>>Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., the former AT & T business unit research

>>>Avaya, Inc., a currently existing equipment manufacturing spin-off from Lucent in 2000

>>>LSI Corporation, a holding company that currently exist

>>>Agere Systems, incorporated on August 1, 2000, the subsidiary Micro Electronic former Lucent was then spun off in 2002 and acquired by LSI in 2007

>>>SYSTIMAX Solutions, the Western Electric Structured Cabling unit, once known as network systems AT & T was separated from Avaya in 2002 and is now part of CommScope

>>>Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, a Swedish communications company

>>>Telcordia Technologies, Inc., a research company that currently exist, formerly known as Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)

From 1991, the Baby Bells began to consolidate its operations or legally rename their Bell Operating Companies as the name of the parent as "Bell Atlantic - Delaware, Inc." or "U.S. WEST Communications, Inc." to "unify "the image of the company. To date, the only remaining Baby Bell that has not renamed its operating companies is AT & T, formerly SBC Communications. Since 2001, there have been only 17 of the original 22 Bell Operating Companies, following the merger of U.S. WEST's and BellSouth's operating companies and reincorporation of Southwestern Bell. Only 9 people 19 have retained their original name companies since their incorporation before 1984.

Before the 1956 rupture, the Bell System also includes the companies listed below. Bell Canada, Northern Electric, and companies operating regional Caribbean were considered as part of the Bell System proper before the 1956 rupture. Nippon Electric was considered a subsidiary of the farthest Western Electric Northern Electric, where Nippon Electric via its own research and development adapted to the designs of Western Electric equipment North American telecommunications for use in Japan, which to this day gives a lot of telephone equipment from Japan and network closer resemblance to North American ANSI and Telcordia standards of European-born ITU-T standards. Before the 1956 rupture, Northern Electric was mainly focused only on manufacturing without any significant amount of separate telecommunication equipment research and development of its own. The post-World War II occupation operation of NTT was considered as an addition to the administrative system North American Bell.

>>>BCE Inc. (Bell Canada Enterprises), a currently existing holding company

>>>Bell Canada, a current ESL

>>>Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly Northern Telecom, a currently existing equipment-manufacturing company

>>>Northern Electric, a former telecommunications equipment manufacturing subsidiary of Western Electric

>>>Dominion Electric, a former recording equipment manufacturing company

>>>Several former Caribbean regional operating companies, sold to ITT

>>>NEC, a currently existing equipment manufacturing company in Japan

>>>Nippon Electric, a former telecommunications equipment-manufacturing company 54% owned by Western Electric

>>>NTT, a telecommunications company that currently exist in Japan, which was administered by AT & T as part of General Douglas MacArthur post-war reconstruction